Alphabet Letter Cookies

This letter cookies recipe could be made with letter cookie cutters or animal shapes for animal crackers. My intent was to recreate the cinnamon alphabet cookies that my son loves from Trader Joe’s. I hope you like them as much as we do!

How to make letter cookies:

Mix the cookie dough in the food processor. Refrigerate.

Roll out the sugar cookie dough. Use letter cookie cutters to make letter shapes.

Bake for 10 minutes.

These are fun sugar cookies to make with children at home. The dough comes together quickly in a food processor and then it is refrigerated for at least an hour. Take the dough out when your helpers are ready to roll out the dough and you’ll have an alphabet of fun in no time!

Spelling Bee treats

It is Spelling Bee time of year at many schools and my son’s elementary school held their school Bee last week. He was excited to be involved in the Bee again this year and I wanted to make him a special treat to celebrate after the stress of the competition was over (for both of us!).

My goodness, some of the words these kids spelled were years beyond them. It was fun to watch the twelve kids spell but heartbreaking to see them miss a letter here and there. I guess that is the point of a spelling bee– not everyone gets each word correct– but it is painful when a wrong letter slips out.

Schoolhouse Cookies from Trader Joe’s

These cookies are made with the Trader Joe’s schoolhouse cookies in mind. They come in a round, plastic tub and you can’t eat just one. My son is an extremely picky eater and has never had even a crumb of any baked good I’ve made at home.

I thought there was a slim chance he’d try these since they look and taste nearly the same as the bucket of letter cookies he likes from the grocery store.

Well, no luck there but that is ok, sometimes it honestly is the thought that counts and when my younger son and I made these cookies we sure were sending happy spelling thoughts with them!

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Yield: 6 dozen

Alphabet Letter Cookies

These are fun cookies to make with children at home. The dough comes together quickly in a food processor and then it is refrigerated for at least an hour. Take the dough out when your helpers are ready to roll out the dough and you'll have an alphabet of fun in no time!

Instructions

Add the all purpose flour and the almond flour and process until the dough forms a ball and pulls away from the sides of the container.

Make two flat circles with the dough and place in a zip loc bag. Refrigerate for about an hour.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment.

Flour your surface (I like to flour on top of a piece of parchment). Roll the dough to 1/4 inch thick. To keep the dough from sticking to the small letter cookie cutters, dip the cutters in flour each time before you press the cutters into the dough.

Bake the cookies for about 10 minutes or until just starting to brown.

Cool cookies on a wire rack.

Notes

Note that some letters such as "I" or "L" bake more quickly than letters like "M" or "B". You may want to place similar letters on a tray together to ensure even baking.

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Aren’t those competitions the most stressful things to watch?! I can’t bear it even when I don’t know the children, never mind my own. Alphabet cookies are a wonderful encouragement, Holly. What if you put them in the store container and tell him the recipe changed slightly. Or just don’t say a word and see the reaction?

Yes, you are right– it is just as hard watching someone else’s child in these competitions let alone my own. Thanks for the suggestions– I did buy his favorite ones from the store and put them side by side to show him how similar they are but no luck. In fact, just the opposite, he thought the homemade cookies might have touched the store-bought cookies and decided he wanted nothing to do with either one! Oh well, one day he’ll come around.

What a wonderful surprise for your very clever son. I know what you mean about heartbreaking when they miss a letter. My son missed the word “entrapment” in his 5th grade spelling bee. Neither one of us will ever forget it. 🙂

Isn’t it funny what childhood memories stick with us? Yes, we are busy learning more words– now the test includes vocabulary and spelling too so it is a lot to learn in a short time. Next Bee is Feb 6th!

Hi Barb! One day he’ll have to eat something more than cereal and yogurt, right? Each year I think he’ll try birthday cake but here we are approaching year 10 and no such luck. SO it goes, he is healthy (enough) and that is what is important.

Yes, let’s get together soon. The next few weeks are busy but hopefully later in Feb or early March?

My daughter misspelled arthritis in the final of the spelling bee in 5th grade. Then she cried buckets and I cried with her. She for misspelling it, I for her heart break. I hope some day soon, your older one will wake up and smell a home made cookie and just gobble it. Fun idea – your cookies are.

I came here to right a comment, and my kiddo saw the picture of your cookies… And she said,” Mom, do u know how to make them. Can you ask her, how to make them?” So, compliments from my Kiddo…She wants exactly same cookies.

Love the inspiration and thoughtfulness behind your letter cookies, Holly =) So glad they are still doing spelling bees…Wish I’d attended the event…What with spell check and all it’s good to jog my memory about writing words correctly, right? At any rate, I’ll take whatever cookies your son doesn’t eat =)

Yes! These are such fun for children who delight in knowing their letters. My son squished together the letters to write “Elf of the Shelf”. He wants his Elf to know that he is thinking of him even though we have nearly the full year to go before Christmas rolls around again!

What a cute cookie idea! I was in a spelling bee a few times growing up! They’re super nerve wracking! I remember one time I wrote down the word correctly, but then when saying it I got my letters mixed up and was disqualified. So embarrassing. I would have loved to have these letter cookies to cheer me up! 😀